Patents Assigned to Instruments Medicaux GB Inc.
  • Patent number: 6443959
    Abstract: A surgical extractor for use in laparascopy. It has a first hollow tube called “slide” and a second hollow tube called “pusher”, which is mounted in a sliding manner over the slide. The slide has a first open end, a second end and a long radial opening close to the second end. A set of flexible rods called “straps” extend in line with the pusher. Each strap has a first end fixed in a rigid manner to the pusher and a second end connected in a rigid manner to the slide close to the second end of the same. Handles are provided for applying a pressure onto the pusher so as to move it over a given stroke distance from a rest position to an opening position closer to the second end of the slide, such causing the straps to fold up and open like petals over the radial opening and thus to allow grasping in a radial direction of an organ to be extracted from the body of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Instruments Medicaux GB Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Béland, Germain Béland, Jacques Poisson